Will Habbo and similar online games be around in 5 years?
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Will online games such as Habbo still be around in 5 years time?
Over the 15+ years Habbo has been around, it has slowly been on a decline with the amount of monthly visitors. I suspect a huge part of that was due to the 'grooming scandal' which was featured on the news back in 2012 which resulted in an investigation by Channel 4, also the fact that casinos were banned and the Great Habbo Mute which lasted almost 2 months before free chat came back.
With the already fall of once popular online game
"Club Penguin" back in 2017 it begs the question; will Habbo eventually follow in the steps of Club Penguin and close down?
Club Penguin saw this decline from 2015 and closed down less popular versions of the game, that being their German and Russian servers, however it was to no avail. We have seen similar steps taken by Sulake with the merging of English speaking hotels to reduce costs and with Habbo bringing back old ranges of furni a lot (or simply re-colouring them), are they catering for the old/loyal players as opposed to trying to attract new players?
What do you think? Will online games such as Habbo be around in 5 years from now?
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